Cultural preview

0 commentsThe explosion that is spring in Virginia attracts people from all over the world. Along with the blooming redbuds and dogwoods, houseguests arrive to admire the colors and inhale the scents. So many...

0 commentsYou've heard this story before: Sam and Dinah have a troubled relationship. He's too involved in his work and doesn't spend enough time at home. She's frustrated by the fact that they’re leading...

0 commentsWine is an ancient and hallowed drink. Ancient texts, including the Bible, mention wine, and the gods of Olympus were known to quaff a few drafts of nectar. They even had a wine deity, Bacchus. Wine...

0 commentsSouth Asia is hot these days— Bombay, 77 degrees, Lahore, 84— and it’s a hot topic in Charlottesville, too. It seems as though all over the University of Virginia events related to South Asia...

0 commentsLongtime McGuffey artist Judy McLeod brings two series of work to the main display space this month— “Wanted Women (Fugitives from the Law)” and “The Mothers and the Sisters (Womenkind).” As the...

0 commentsBy Mark Grabowski
Do you want to rock? I’m not talking ‘bout no death-metal-growling nu-metal rapping poser rock here, but the real stuff. This ain’t pop music; in fact, it’s about as catchy as a...

0 commentsBy Mark Grabowski
I am living mere houses away from rock stars! That's right, real rock stars, the kind who look tough (kind of like the early Replacements), live hard, and are likely to die young....

0 commentsI have a friend from Northern Virginia who teases me about living in the sleepy television town of “Mayberry” where friends and neighbors love to pull up a chair on Sheriff Andy Taylor’s porch an’...

0 commentsFormer president Ronald Reagan’s uttered one of his more laughable statements on the campaign trail in 1980. Obviously not much of a nature man despite all those pix of him on horseback at his ranch...

0 commentsLea Ann Douglas has spent more than a year writing and researching her new play, The Neophyte, which opens next weekend at the Helms Theater. An M.F.A. student in UVA’s Drama Department, Douglas...

0 commentsFace the facts: men are still working their way out of the cave emotionally. From Adam in the Garden of Eden to Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners to Al Bundy of Married With Children, examples abound...

0 commentsIn a free-speech nation (as we want to believe ours is), there are many ways for radical thinkers to make a point. Letters to the editor, calls to dial-in radio or TV shows. Shout it out from a...

0 commentsIn lieu of the typically prolix, and not-always-helpful statements of intent which artists like to hang alongside their work, Adam O’Neal substitutes a dictionary definition. The word he defines,...

0 commentsIn what’s my last column before I disentangle myself from Charlottesville’s loving embrace and head west, I’d like to urge you to do something I’ve urged you to do a couple of times in the past. You...

0 commentsWhat do you do when you’ve got a group of irrepressible kids who will do anything to get what they want? It’s hard to argue when what these young people want is to inspire others with the magic of...

0 commentsSpring has sprung! Among the many warm-weather harbingers, daffodils are blooming, birds are chirping, and fish are biting. Spring can be an exciting time filled with many outdoor adventures, but our...

0 commentsWhen it premiered on Broadway, Kiss Me, Kate, written in 1948, won four Tony Awards, including best musical, and the recent revival won five Tony Awards, including best musical revival. "I saw...

0 commentsWithout doubt, Thomas Jefferson is our most famous local architect. But Jefferson is not the only architect who contributed something grand to the Old Dominion’s building sense, and Central Virginia...

0 commentsLee Camp is a comic work in progress: telling jokes since 14, stand-up comedian since 18, Cavalier Daily’s humor columnist for four years. Now Camp has a book— Neither Sophisticated Nor Intelligent:...

0 commentsAfter several weeks of pop art sci-fi (the Westerman prints) and decidedly literary byproduct (prints by Blake, paintings by Dos Pasos), the University of Virginia Museum of Art goes out west for an...

0 commentsOne summer a few years back, my family and I went to summer camp together. It was a wilderness survival program in the Woodstock Berkshires where seasoned woodsmen taught us city folks how to start a...

0 commentsThe Olympics have come and gone with their corruptions and upsets as well as some shining examples of triumph over adversity. Either way you see the Olympics, the events (whether administrative or...

0 commentsWell, it was sure news to me. "The students and instructors of the Blue Ridge Irish Music School (BRIMS) have been actively bringing traditional Irish music and dance in its most vital and exciting...

0 commentsWhen Charles Wright titles his new book of poems A Short History of the Shadow, he knows full well the many ways we might read that word.Shadow: a silhouette, the absence of light, cast when the...

0 commentsBaltimore-based artist Joyce Scott has worked in all kinds of media, from performance art and installation to sculpture. Some of Scott’s signature beaded sculpture is included in a new exhibit at the...

0 commentsIf there’s something to be said for the unspectacular but solid, the slow and steady, there’s something to be said for Old School Freight Train. Another in a long line of un-bluegrass bands in which...

0 commentsThis weekend provides the perfect opportunity for parents to infect their offspring with the reading bug at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Aside from the youth and family programs happening...